1,499,769 Ways of Writing the Future

When conveying the vision of the desired future we influence our peers and obtain their support, their work, their resources, and even their sacrifice.

Purpose and Career

Why I Decided to Invest My Money Studying at the World's Finest Universities

Why I Decided to Invest My Money Studying at the World's Finest Universities

In this article, I would like to share my experiences at Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Graduate Business School, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan and Singularity University. How they influenced my career and the impact they had o...

Startup Ecosystem

The Unicorn Invasion

The Unicorn Invasion

It may be a dream. But I am bombarded with daily news of Unicorns and Unicorns everywhere! Companies that reach a 1 billion dollar valuation seem to be multiplying big time, even in LATAM. At first glance, this sounds exciting, but upon clo...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Innovation through Education

Innovation through Education

Thinking about something innovative connects us directly to the world of ideas. The first step is understanding that innovation goes way beyond: that no idea can turn out to be innovative without execution: that all those things that we fai...

Global Online Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Global Online Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

"I WANT TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR, BUT I DON'T HAVE AN IDEA"

You can create a company or new business unit, and the idea is certainly not where to start!

We teach our recognized methodology for creating profitable and scalable businesses in our Entrepreneurship and Innovation Online Course. More than 1300 entrepreneurs, freelancers and businesspeople in 50 countries have graduated from our program.

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Most often, great new ideas do not arise from a single person, but at the intersection of functions or people who have never known each other before

Clayton M. Christensen

No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer.

Steve Blank

One cannot afford to reach the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.

Geoffrey Moore

Shared activities [. . .] forge ties between diverse individuals by changing their usual patterns of interaction, letting them break out of their prescribed business roles.

Brian Uzzi

In a decentralized organization, there's no clear leader, no hierarchy, and no headquarters. If and when a leader does emerge, that person has little power over others. The best that person can do to influence people is to lead by example.

Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the non-biological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ray Kurzweil

In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition, and "exchange value" in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by "sharable value" on the Collaborative Commons.

Jeremy Rifkin

Why, then you might ask have the business plan and the raising of venture capital become seen as the centerpiece of entrepreneurial endeavor?

John Mullins, PhD

What we do today [. . .] is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Early market development efforts typically do not respond well to massive infusions of capital.

Geoffrey Moore

Today, if youre not disrupting yourself, someone else is; your fate is to be either the disrupter or the disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Salim Ismail

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun Tzu

It's a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can't, neither can anyone else.

David J. Collis, Michael G. Rukstad

In the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

Salim Ismail

Podcasts

Francisco Santolo: The Myth About Scaling Your Business Fast

Francisco Santolo on Radio Indigo: Scalabl Methodology Arrives in India

Francisco Santolo on Radio Continental: The Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

What Google Gets Wrong about Entrepreneurship

What Google Gets Wrong about Entrepreneurship

Let me start off by saying that I truly admire Google as a company, and certainly their initiatives in the entrepreneurial environment: Google Ventures, Google Launchpad, Google for Entrepreneurs, their Sprint methodology (inspired by the c...

Leadership and Management

Diversity Is Not Just a Buzzword

Diversity Is Not Just a Buzzword

The business case for diversity is overwhelmingly positive, and yet companies still don’t know how to leverage this powerful force....

Marketing and Sales

Will Marketing Always Blame Logistics?

Will Marketing Always Blame Logistics?

Tensions between areas, Sales and Logistics, Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Sales, Sales and Finance, HR and Finance, Research Development and Finance or Production are not only normal and expected but can be instrumental f...

Upcoming Online Courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Press

Francisco Santolo: The Digital Nomad Who Travels the World Teaching Entrepreneurship

Francisco Santolo: The Digital Nomad Who Travels the World Teaching Entrepreneurship

Francisco Santolo gave up his 12-year corporate career and with it all his assets and decided to venture out into the world with the firm determination that every decision he made should be deeply connected to his purpose. This is how Scalabl was born: a company that helps others to build their own businesses and empower people's talents.

Francisco Santolo was selected by Singularity University

Francisco Santolo was selected by Singularity University

Francisco Santolo, Founder & CEO of Scalabl, was selected by Singularity University to participate in the «Executive Program in entrepreneurship and exponential technologies: artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and nanotechnology»

Helping an Argentinian Startup ¨Catch Fire¨

Helping an Argentinian Startup ¨Catch Fire¨

Michael Goldberg, Case Western Reserve University Professor, led a study trip to Argentina and in order to learn more about the entrepreneurial ecosystem his MBA students visited Scalabl. They were pleasantly surprised to learn that Francisco was using Steve Blank’s approach to support startups. One group of students worked with BrasUp, a Scalabl company that produces and sells a fire starter kit for the consumers grilling market.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Marketing Driven Innovation

Marketing Driven Innovation

What I find inspiring about Business is its immense potential to transform things, to change realities. While growing in our career we learn powerful principles that can lead to transformation. It does not matter if you are an Analyst, a T...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The End of Long-Term Planning

The End of Long-Term Planning

Novel Entrepreneurship and Innovation methodologies from the Tech and Startup world are leaping into Corporations, but they are still broadly misunderstood in both domains....

Future and Technology

1,499,769 Ways of Writing the Future

1,499,769 Ways of Writing the Future

In just 60 years, between 1789 and 1848, we coined the following terms:Nationality, scientist, economic crisis, sociology, journalism, capitalism, aristocracy, ideology, middle class, working class, industry, engineer, statistics, and strik...

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